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Here are some articles we found interesting, and thought you might too:

What happens when some pick up artists try to teach women how to meet men in San Francisco?  Find out here.

Is there more than one path to empathy?

Have kids?  Want to make the world a kinder place?  Here are some ideas about how to raise kinder children.

What’s the relationship between teens, screens and relationships?

One more reason to work on your social skills, loneliness increases the likelihood of high blood pressure in people over 50, and if you’re lucky, you’ll make it to over 50.

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Here are some articles we liked and thought that you might too:

What Eric Barker thinks, based on some research, we should look for in a marriage partner.  He also wrote another interesting one on why people blame the victim . . ..

An interview by Elle Magazine with Neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine on her new book “The Male Brain,” she has some pretty interesting commentary on male/female communication and aptitude differences, as well as some ways to look at how the sexes know how they are loved, which might help explain some sexual gridlock couples get into.

Jealous much?  While this article is for those in open relationships, Annsley Chapman’s five tips for managing jealousy are great ideas whether you are a one-and-only, or share-the-love-type.

Psyblog tells us ten reasons why we may be more likely to conform.

Eight reasons I’m glad I’m not male in some cultures that have ritualized coming of age.

I don’t know if is remarkable that people were honest in representing themselves [online]” because “the truth draws people in” as the author of this article posits, or if it’s because social networks where your real life friends ARE your virtual friends means more accountability and less room for fibbing without real world consequences.

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Here are some articles we liked, and thought you would to:

Science Daily talks about how the military has started using mindfulness meditation training to help build resilience in troops and reduce the likelihood of PTSD.

J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter novels, gives a compelling commencement address at Harvard talking about the benefits of failure and adversity and the importance of imagination in empathy.  You have the option or watching or reading it.

A great talk about the values behind words and how language can structure our thinking as well as some gifts from adversity.  The talk is given by a woman that is a double amputee.

Even people that are high acheivers sometimes feel like an impostor or fraud and that any day someone just smart enough will figure them out for what they are afraid they are.

The History of the fear of ‘information overload’ it goes further back than today’s fears with facebook, blogging and constant availability of information without a need for memorization.

Frontline brings you a film about how our digital technology is making our lives better, and worse, with Digital Nation.

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Articles we liked, that you might like too:

This Column will Change your Life: The Insulted and the Injured; about the rise of rudeness due to obliviousness and what to do about it.

Reshaping Relationships Through Passion; about the benefits of developing relationships that challenge us to grow based on shared passions.

What Makes a Good Teacher?; Mr. Taylor ranks among the top 5 percent of all D.C. math teachers. He’s entertaining, but he’s not a born performer. He’s well prepared, but he’s been a teacher for only three years. He cares about his kids, but so do a lot of his underperforming peers. What’s he doing differently?

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